Taipei, Taiwan, November 4th, 2003-ABIT's
long anticipated Athlon 64 flagship product, the KV8-MAX3, has just been
unleashed on top hardware review site OC Workbench. As usual, they were
quick and steady in their judgment, awarding the newest MAX3 a Product
Excellence Award.
Loaded With Features
"Although it came slightly later, it has equipped itself with
very interesting functions that most boards do not. KV8 Max 3 is probably
the first Athlon 64 board to implement the OTES (Outside Thermal Exhaust
System) that first appeared on the ABIT Ti4200 graphics card and DiGiDice.
Now it is on the KV8-MAX3. With the O.T.E.S, the Mosfets and capacitors
are cooled down during extreme overclocking. Something that might interest
you too is that ABIT KV8-MAX3 is the first Socket 754 board to include
6, you heard it right, 6 SATA ports supporting RAID, 4 is by Silicon Image
Sil3114 and another 2 is supported by VIA 8237 south bridge. Seriously,
I am not sure if you need 6 SATA ports. :)"
"Something that comes unique with ABIT KV8-MAX 3 is the Secure
IDE. Secure IDE consists of an IDE connector to secure the data that is
stored on the disk. SecureIDE connects to your IDE hard disk and has a
special decoder; without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened
by anyone. Thus hackers and would be information thieves cannot access
your hard disk, even if they remove it from your PC. On top of that, ABIT
has integrated their new feature μGuru, which basically supports an interactive
way of managing your hardware monitoring and overclocking features.
Built for Overclockers, By Overclockers
"In terms of overclocking, we managed to bring the CPU up to
222MHz FSB at 1.6v, DDR 2.7v at CAS 2.5, 6-3-3 (8-4-4). The voltage levels
of the settings for Vcore, VDimm, VAGP is pretty wide and definitely helps
in extreme overclocking."
"Overall, I am very impressed with the boards functionality and overclocking
options. It has all the necessary settings available and OTES to keep
the capacitors cool. The μGuru also helps to manage the temperatures and
overclocking within Windows. This is something that you would want."
For the full review, click here.
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